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When learning a new language/ platform, it’s imperative to get oneself acquainted with the terminology. It’s analogous to making a new friend and improving your friendship. When we make friends with a new person, we try to find out quite a few attributes of that person apart from his name. If we want the friendship to thrive, we improve on it by knowing more about the friend, eg. his house, his family, the…

Recently I was hunting for do's and dont's of coding, and I came across this article on c2.com, which provided an extensive list of how a coder should NOT code. The article states, and I quote, "Cowboy Coders are programmers who write code according to their own rules. They may be very good at writing code, but it doesn't generally follow the standards, processes, policies, or anything else derived from the…

As we all know, mobile phones have come a long way from being a device for making calls and sending text messages to becoming smartphones. One of the important factors that make these phones ‘SMART’ is the way these phones leverage data received by the various sensors built in the phone itself. Let us see a few of these sensors and technologies.

1. GPS – The GPS (Global Positioning System) is a space based global navigation satellite system that provides location and…

So why is there so much hype about HTML5? It’s a really big deal, especially for mobile browsers and “on the go” Web users. It is predicted that HTML5 will standardize many important use cases for Mobile Web browsing that were previously implemented using proprietary APIs.

HTML 5 isn’t an officially ratified standard ….yet. The spec continues to edge closer to completion, however, and when combined with JavaScript and CSS3, HTML5 can do some really…